--- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Jeff Fischer wrote: > > > > You handle the source of those kind > > > > of thoughts and they cease. > > > > > > Patrick Gillam wrote: > > > There's one central repository of dysfunctional thoughts? > > > > TurquoiseB wrote: > > Actually, in the Buddhist model, yes. :-) > > > > Functional thoughts, too... > > Please explain, Unc. Coming from the TM model as I do, > I think of thought as having two possible origins. > > And I'm too ignorant of Buddhism to get the witticism I > suspect is hiding in your remark.
And I'm pre-caffeinated, so I won't be able to do justice to it. :-) But basically in some Buddhist doctrines there is the idea that "our" thoughts are not really ours. Especially when they are tied up with strong emotions like fear or anger or hatred or even desire. The emotions are said to be the "driver" in the equation -- they are just components, states of attention that are not really the perceiver or "of" the perceiver. They just flow through the perceiver and he or she attaches thoughts to them. I think the primary difference is the belief that there in Buddhist doctrine that there is not a fixed self, merely an assemblage of states of attention that flow through you. Therefore there is not the same tendency to think of "our" thoughts as *our* thoughts. But you're right, it was just me cracking wise... Unc To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
